Hello everyone.

This is a story about how one moment can change the course of our entire lives; and how that despite being terrifying, it can also be just what we need.
In Always we saw Beckett literally clinging on for her life, and that brought her to Castle's front door. This is the story of how she got there, and what happens to them next.

Disclaimer: Everything and everyone belongs to their rightful owners, i'm just borrowing them for a little while.

A Single Moment of Impact

"There are these moments in life, Kate, that impact on our lives like a natural disaster does on the world. And right now, all you can see is how terrible these moments in your life have been, and how much better the world would have been without them. But one day, something is going to happen to you, and you're going to realise that all the emotion that has collided directly into you is a good thing. Something is going to happen to you; a single moment of impact that will make you see that the power of a natural disaster, however devastating, is also beautiful. You're going to see that to be more than who you are is an impossible task. You are already capable of being everything that you want to be; you just need to decide what parts you want to keep a hold of, and what parts you need to let go of."

Kate hadn't known what to say. Hadn't understood what Dr. Burke was trying to tell her, but was too embarrassed, and perhaps a little too scared to ask him to explain. This wasn't like him; cryptic life lessons and metaphors, it wasn't really his style. But whatever it meant, he had a look in his eyes that told her she needed to keep listening. To hear what he was saying, even if the words were just ringing in her ears without a single glimpse of having understood them.

"You're going to reach a moment in your life, and it's going to hit you with such a rush of complete clarity that the whole world is going to illuminate with what is truly important. I can't tell you what, or when, or how it will happen. You just have to trust that it will, and be courageous enough to accept whatever you find in that moment.
I know that this a lot to take in, and that in all likelihood not a single word of what I have just said has made any sense at all, but one day it will. And that day is going to be the most important moment of your life so far."

Kate had left Dr. Burke's office that day, the office of the man who had been her one source of comprehension against the chaos that had been slowly devouring her life for the past thirteen years, convinced that she wasn't the only one who was going slightly mad. And that should have scared her, but this was a man who she trusted inherently; and so Kate had accepted all that he had said to her to be something that she would need in the future, and didn't think of it again. Until now.

Because here she was, sat on a swing, so drowned in the numbing cold and pouring rain that she couldn't even feel the bruises that would have otherwise made the effort of breathing too much to take. Here she was, without the familiar, comforting press of metal against her skin. Here she was, yet again thrown out into a world that seemed determined to be rid of her. And what was it that she was thinking of?

The whole heartbreaking world was alight with the thought of the man that not twenty four hours ago she was determined to never set eyes on again. And the irony of how close she had come to that reality would have been funny, if it wasn't so utterly terrifying.

So, here she was, understanding every single word that Dr. Burke had spoken that day, and she felt a little like she had just watched as the entire world had been swallowed by a great tidal wave, and had been spat out the other end; shattered, and stunned, and yet somehow beautiful.

This was it. This was her single moment of impact. And really, what else could she do, but find the courage to accept what it was telling her. To find her way back to the only thing in this whole world that mattered at all. To find her way back to Richard Castle.

To Be Continued..

I hope that you liked the first section, I know that it was rather short, but I just wanted to introduce the idea.
I have only written this chapter so far, but I have an almost plan as to where it is going to take our favourite crime fighting duo.

Please let me know what you thought, and if you think it is a story worth continuing?
And thank you for reading.

Until next time,
Katie.